She's a terrific video artist and I'm watching her Mesocosm right now. It's 144 hours of black and white animation rather like illustrations to a Nature book for kids but with strange, beautiful, disturbing overtones. The imagery takes place in an obelisk-like slice of space surrounded by black blankness through which a human figure walks (when he's not hanging out in the outside-world-inside-obelisk).
And it's punctuated by acousmatic sound, sometimes like birdsong, always electronic.
I've had it running on my machine for days and it's been blowing me away. In this setup you watch it frontally and in various states of Benjaminian Zersteuung, which is intriguing. It sort of happens alongside you.
Mesocosm is an intense, alluring piece. More soon including a link.
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